Don"t think there’ll be a new character. I mean they haven’t changed the twitter icon yet, Ono is not going to be there, and I personally don’t think Evo Japan is big enough to warrant a reveal. Would love to be wrong though.
Unrelated but I completely forgot a character’s birthday. Happy belated birthday, FANG
The Wire is godlike, except for McNulty in the last season.
The series’ creator is a pretty great follow on Twitter too, sometimes drops stories from his time as a police reporter in Baltimore.
That a tv show? I really don’t watch tv besides sports. I’m a movie and video game guy. Why?
I’m on season 4. Been giving hot takes on a lot of the show for the past week in Shaft Agent’s discord. This season with the focus on the middle school kids and the things going on with the social science research is hilarious.
10/10 show TBH.
Big Ooof.
I see Sanford playing SFV at NLBC right now 
Only thing i know about the wire is i live less than an hour away from it and shhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttt
Tfw when everybody has watched the wire but you even my girl and her mom have lol.
I barely got into it, been binging it since.
Dime writing a long ass post. Probably gonna tell us how he was dealing on top of rapping, on top of being the best skullgirls player ever or some bullshit.
Its been 23 minutes since the joke above and Dime still writing.
Dime prolly texts on his phone with a bluetooth keyboard.
The Duke Nukem Forever of SRK posts
Is final round the start of the CPT?
If so we actually might not get any news until then…
Yeah well the thing is most of her “problems” haven’t been addressed so it does t matter if theybuff her here or there without addressing the actual issues:
Imho there are a ton of ways to buff her to make her strong without going overboard. Probably some of the most sensible are to reduce her charge times across the board.
Sbk charge time has literally no point outside of combos, it’s terrible in neutral, so a very small charge time makes perfect sense without breaking her. All that is needed is to keep the longer charge time on ex sbk, which is easy since it’s charge time is already longer than normal sbk anyways.
Make hk legs -2 and move forward more. Gives her a safeish cancel but not for free because of the -2. No reason for her legs moves to be so bad if they themselves don’t lead to combo or move forward substantially or have invincibility or knockdown and LK is the only one that has one of those attributes.
Her kikoken is weak enough to reduce the charge time substantially. At least 10 frames charge time reduction. Imho I would just make it no charge and make it act like a normal fireball on block and hit and call it a day… as it is, the only really good thing about it is that it performs better on block than most other fireballs in the game and has pretty good recovery.
She’s a character that is kinda like ed at this point. Pretty all around, has a projectile/ex reversal and good ground pokes. But most of her “all around” stuff is slow or lacks range or damage. And unfortunately, being all around has never been what fighting games are about. The top tier is almost always overpowered stuff that is so strong the characters weaknesses don’t make up for the strengths. Chun has some BIG strengths:
Uber fast walk speed
Great pokes
Can combo from jab on non CH
3 frame cr.lk
Non metered FB beater
Ex reversal
Projectile
Very high priority normal AA’s
But then she has
Slow ass jump
Short ranged dash
Slow no range fireball beater
No conversion range on her pokes outside CH and v pop
Low offensive damage (but her punish damage has gotten MUCH better in s4)
Long ass charge on projectile
Slow ass ranged CC
Too much pushback on offensive moves
Oh man I got to go to my first legit Tournament scene here! Now I see why yall like it so much! Got to see some really good games with Tekken 7, UMVC3, and Soul Calibur 6 (I am SO picking up Zasalamel!!!), and best I got to see 2 Laura’s there in the SF5 section. I was excited to see what some Laura pros. can do.
LORD GOD SHE CANT DO ANYTHING!!! LMAO
I actually felt so much better watching that since I knew how bad she already was and even seeing people who main her just outright get bodied because…well they have no options to play and cant really get a chance to do anything. I dont think Ive ever seen a character that piss poor designed against 90% of the cast, SHE CANT DO ANYTHING TO THE CAST THAT THE CAST CAN DO TO HER!! Hell I saw Birdie’s backdashing out of her light elbow and 2 and 3 frame blockstrings even though it connected with the model, just because she was 2 cm away instead of 1 it whiffed and he got punished for it! And the punching and kicking through the fireball was even sadder. 
Now sidenote, that ST.MP nerf was the most BS thing Capcom could do, a Ryu jumped over her and even though her elbow was in his model is showed Laura taking the hit from way behind the air behind her, yet he was late timing his AA Jab and cr.mp against her extremely late and it smacking her out of the sky if he messed up a special or input even when she was already deep in his model!
I asked both of them why they still bothered with her at this point since you basically dont get to play anymore ( I mean unless the opponent does something incredibly stupid) and get punished for too many things. One of them just shrugged and walked off pretty upset, the other said he didnt care for anyone else so he just suffers through it and didnt want to run to Akuma/Guile to make life easy. I did get a laugh out of people when I told him he was my hero for sticking with her. lmao #LAURAISDEAD
I definitely want to bring my Kolin out there now, I’m so inspired!!
Naw that was just a short e book homie. I write that shit in my sleep 
Dime brought up a good point about her HK legs there is no reason for it to be -10 lol. It does low damage for a heavy ender, doesn’t KD, doesn’t extend combos like the other two versions, and doesn’t move her forward enough for real pressure. Hell listing it out like that it may very well be the worst (heavy) combo ender in the game.
It basically only exists to end combos when you can’t charge for SBK or have no meter for EX Legs. The latter sort if leads into another issue with her being fairly meter hungry between all the EX Leg usage (neutral conversions, juggles and some punishes) and EX.Kikoken being one of her few good offensive tools. And that’s on top of burning meter for her reversal.
Laura needs some major nerfs so that she can get some major buffs.
Basically she needs to be reworked to have less reward/kill you in one series and then balance that with a better overall neutral. As it is she’s just a gief style grappler at this point without the anti neutral face slam on buttons tools he has.
Late, but The Wire is fucking great. Absolutely worth a watch if you haven’t before. So many great characters.
It also leads to a fun game to play (“hey I know that guy”) because so many of those people went on to do other things after that are Wire adjacent. At least 2 of them ended up on Bosch (another quite good show), though one is playing roughly the same character Marlo got a big change over.
Also yeah it’s a notch more interesting when you live/work around Baltimore.
